[pmmail-list] Receive settings password - where stored

Allan McLane pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:34:04 -0400


I once lost a password and discovered that it's a simple a-b character substitution algorithm. It took about 10 minutes to decode, on paper. Just plug in some known characters and you'll figure it out too.

--allan

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:12:56 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Ludwig wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:07:33 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>>The fourth entry field down is labeled:
>>	Password
>
>LOL ;-) And, can you read the password? ;-)
>As far as I understood the problem, he wants to transfer the password
>over to the windows version, so he needs to read it out, which is not
>possible (of course! would be a shame to show the password as plain
>text!). 
>I had the same problem some time ago but couldn't even open the account
>anymore (just forgot the password when not using it for ages). I sent
>some *ini files to BSW and got my password recovered.
>
>Best regards
>
>Andreas
>
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>
>Andreas Ludwig
>from the beautiful town of Vienna (Austria)
>using PMMail/2 on eComStation 1.01 on a IBM PC Server 330
>
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